"nuclear weapons testing. The struggles attending the blacklist were played out metaphorically on the big screen in various ways. As described by film historian James Chapman, ""Carl Foreman, who had refused to testify before the committee, wrote the western ""High Noon"" (1952), in which a town marshal (played, ironically, by friendly witness Gary Cooper) finds himself deserted by the good citizens of Hadleyville (read: Hollywood) when a gang of outlaws who had terrorized the town several years earlier (read: HUAC) returns."" Cooper's lawman cleaned up Hadleyville, but Foreman was forced to leave for Europe to find work. Even more famously,"
"Actress, Score, and Cinematography-Black and White). The award-winning score was written by Russian-born composer Dimitri Tiomkin. ""High Noon"" was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as ""culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant"" in 1989, the NFR's first year of existence. In Hadleyville, a small town in New Mexico Territory, Marshal Will Kane (Cooper), newly married to Amy Fowler (Grace Kelly), prepares to retire. The happy couple will soon depart for a new life to raise a family and run a store in another town. However, word arrives that Frank Miller (Ian MacDonald),"
"(1944), ""A Kiss Before Dying"" (1991), ""Little Britain"" (2000–07), ""The Legend of Tarzan"" (2016), ""The Current War"" (2018) and ""Slaughterhouse Rulez"" (2018). Gaddesden Place Gaddesden Place, near Hemel Hempstead in Hertfordshire, England, was designed by architect James Wyatt and built between 1768 and 1773, and was the home of the noted Hertfordshire Halsey family. The house is set in an elevated position overlooking the Gade Valley and is said to enjoy one of the finest views in the Home Counties. The Halseys moved to Great Gaddesden in 1458 and later became lessees of the Rectory of Gaddesden until March 12,"
"(with Sean Connery overlooking the maze), ""Charlie and the Chocolate Factory"" starring Johnny Depp, ""V for Vendetta"" with Stephen Fry and ""Mortdecai"" in 2015 starring Johnny Depp and Gwyneth Paltrow. Hatfield House Hatfield House is a country house set in a large park, the Great Park, on the eastern side of the town of Hatfield, Hertfordshire, England. The present Jacobean house, a leading example of the prodigy house, was built in 1611 by Robert Cecil, 1st Earl of Salisbury and Chief Minister to King James I and has been the home of the Cecil family ever since. It is a"
"serious doubts about her career at Warner Bros. Some film scholars consider 1939 to be the high point of the golden age of Classical Hollywood, producing classics in many genres, including the Western. Warner Bros. produced Michael Curtiz's sprawling Technicolor adventure ""Dodge City"", Flynn and deHavilland's first Western film. Set during the American Civil War, the film is about a Texas trailblazer who witnesses the brutal lawlessness of Dodge City, Kansas, and becomes sheriff to clean up the town. DeHavilland played Abbie Irving, whose initial hostility towards Flynn's character Wade Hatton is transformed by events, and the two fall in"
"Pinocchio, Bambi, Song of the South, Melody Time, Bear Country, The Vanishing Prairie, Perri, Nikki, Wild Dog of the North, Moon Pilot, Bon Voyage, In Search of the Castaways, The Prince and the Pauper ((1962 film), part of Walt Disney anthology television series television series. It starred Guy Williams as Miles Hendon, and Sean Scully in the dual roles of Prince Edward and Tom Canty) and Babes in Toyland. ""Hayley in Disneyland"" - Hayley Mills meets Walt Disney in Hollywood on Christmas Day and introduces some of her favourite Disney films with scenes from Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs,"
"film was reissued under the title Law of Vengeance. A feud between the Colby and the Hayden families, starts in the hills of Kentucky and continues in the West after the American Civil War. Also involved is the conflict between vigilantism and the law in a frontier environment, and lovers from the two feuding families. At one point, one of the villains shoots the head off Shirley Temple's character's doll. To the Last Man (1933 film) To the Last Man is a 1933 American Pre-Code Western film directed by Henry Hathaway and starring Randolph Scott and Esther Ralston. The screenplay"
"of John Wesley. There is a Baptist church in the town, whose congregation dates back to 1843. Writer Dame Hilary Mantel, author of ""Wolf Hall"" and ""Bring Up the Bodies,"" dwells in the town. Charles Warrell, creator of the ""I-Spy"" series of children's books, lived in the town from his retirement in 1956 until his death in 1995. The German-born English painter Hubert von Herkomer died at Budleigh Salterton in 1914. In 2003, Budleigh Salterton featured in episode 3 of series 3 of ""Top Gear"" as the destination for a road test by Jeremy Clarkson of a Bentley Continental GT."
"left the project too. The English pop band Saint Etienne has also recorded and released a theoretical soundtrack for an imagined film of the book on their 2002 fan-club exclusively released album ""Asleep at the Wheels of Steel"". The Hawkline Monster: A Gothic Western The Hawkline Monster: A Gothic Western is a novel by Richard Brautigan first published in 1974. The novel is his fifth published novel, and a parody of Western and Gothic novels. Taking place mainly in eastern Oregon in 1902, the story concerns a pair of morally ambivalent gunmen, Cameron and Greer. On a job in Hawaii,"
"known as Cracker Westerns, are set in Florida during the Second Seminole War. An example is ""Distant Drums"" (1951) starring Gary Cooper. A developing subgenre, with roots in films such as ""Curse of the Undead"" (1959) and ""Billy the Kid vs. Dracula"" (1966), which depicts the legendary outlaw Billy the Kid fighting against the notorious vampire. Another example is ""The Ghoul Goes West"", an unproduced Ed Wood film to star Bela Lugosi as Dracula in the Old West. Recent examples include the films ""Near Dark"" (1987) directed by Kathryn Bigelow which tells the story about a human falling in love"
"space western ""Firefly"", starring Nathan Fillion, Gina Torres, Alan Tudyk, Morena Baccarin, Adam Baldwin, Jewel Staite, Sean Maher, Summer Glau and Ron Glass. Set in the year 2517, ""Firefly"" explores the lives of the people who, on the outskirts of society, make their living as the crew of ""Serenity"", a ""Firefly-class"" spaceship. The series' original concept progressed after Whedon read ""The Killer Angels"", a book on the Battle of Gettysburg. An ever-present element was Whedon's injection of anti-totalitarianism, writing into the show a historical analogy of the Battle of Gettysburg, the ""Battle of Serenity Valley"". The beaten soldiers were called"
"fiction. It is mentioned in several Sherlock Holmes novels. In ""The Hound of the Baskervilles"", Watson and his companions Dr. Mortimer and Sir Henry Baskerville leave for Dartmoor from Paddington, while in ""The Boscombe Valley Mystery"", Holmes and Watson leave the station for a train to Boscombe Valley near Ross-on-Wye, Herefordshire. The mystery novel ""4.50 From Paddington"" (1957) by Agatha Christie begins with a murder witnessed by a passenger on a train from Paddington. One of The Railway Series books, ""The Eight Famous Engines"", contains a story about Gordon, Duck and a foreign engine debating which station London is. Duck"
"sequels to ""Warlock"", though they do not portray the same principal characters or setting. The three novels together form the ""Legends West"" trilogy. In 1959, ""Warlock"" was adapted into a film of the same name starring Henry Fonda, Richard Widmark, and Anthony Quinn. When violence threatens the frontier boomtown of Warlock, a Citizens' Committee determines to take action against criminal cowboys and cattle rustlers. A gunslinger named Clay Blaisedell, who has achieved considerable renown in Texas, is hired as town marshal to keep the peace. He is followed to Warlock by his close friend Tom Morgan, a gambler and saloon"
"giant robot of himself constructed to roam the Las Vegas desert. Another key novel, an erotic supernatural thriller ""Private Midnight"" is set in a noir crime world of jazz, junkies and shadows from out of time. Soon after the publication of ""Zanesville"", reports began circulating around Hollywood that the actor Kevin Costner was furious about being featured as the ""voice"" of Dooley Duck, one of several animated hologram characters in the story, who serve as advertising vehicles in the fictional world of the novel. Under the magical influence of the protagonist, Elijah Clearfather, Dooley not only comes to life and"
"""Arfive"" (1971), ""The Last Valley"" (1975), and ""Fair Land, Fair Land"". The first three books of the six in chronological story sequence (but not in the sequence of publishing) — ""The Big Sky"", ""The Way West"", and ""Fair Land, Fair Land"" — are in themselves a complete trilogy, starting in 1830 with Boone Caudill leaving Kentucky to become a mountain man and ending with the death of Caudill and later the death of Dick Summers in the 1870s. Former senator William Tadlock leads a wagon train along the Oregon Trail from Missouri with the help of hired guide Dick Summers."
"with George Montgomery, ""Cheyenne Autumn"" (1964), featuring Richard Widmark, James Stewart and Edward G. Robinson and directed by John Ford and ""Wyatt Earp"" (1994) with Kevin Costner and Gene Hackman. In the 1939 film ""Dodge City"" the fictional lawman Wade Hatton, played by Errol Flynn, was modeled on Earp. In the television series ""Smallville"", Metropolis is said to be southwest of Dodge City with Smallville, ""Superman"" / Clark Kent's childhood and adolescent residence, located west of Wichita. More recently, Dodge City served as a setting for the 2005 multi-platform video game ""Gun"". Numerous figures of the American Old West lived"
"and retribution, which is often dispensed through a shootout or quick-draw duel. The Western was the most popular Hollywood genre from the early 20th century to the 1960s. Western films first became well-attended in the 1930s. John Ford's landmark Western adventure ""Stagecoach"" became one of the biggest hits in 1939 and it made John Wayne a mainstream screen star. Westerns were very popular throughout the 1950s and 1960s. Many of the most acclaimed Westerns were released during this time, including ""High Noon"" (1952), ""Shane"" (1953), ""The Searchers"" (1956), and ""The Wild Bunch"" (1969). Classic Westerns such as these have been"
"Seminole (film) Seminole is a 1953 American Technicolor Western film directed by Budd Boetticher and starring Rock Hudson, Anthony Quinn, Barbara Hale and Richard Carlson. Much of the film was shot in the Everglades National Park, Florida. At Fort King, Florida, in 1835, Lt. Lance Caldwell is charged with the murder of a sentry. At his court martial, he recounts the story of the fragile peace between the settlers and the native Seminole and how that peace is threatened by the strict fort commander, Maj. Harlan Degan who wants to wipe out the natives. Caldwell’s childhood sweetheart, Revere Muldoon, meets"
"showing the influence of Kurosawa. The character Han Solo dressed like an archetypal gunslinger, and the Mos Eisley cantina is much like an Old West saloon. Meanwhile, films such as ""The Big Lebowski"", which plucked actor Sam Elliott out of the Old West and into a Los Angeles bowling alley, and ""Midnight Cowboy"", about a Southern-boy-turned-gigolo in New York (who disappoints a client when he doesn't measure up to Gary Cooper), transplanted Western themes into modern settings for both purposes of parody and homage. Western fiction is a genre of literature set in the American Old West, most commonly between"
"is Barton's 2nd full-lengthed feature film Western. Based on the true story of one of the most violent gunfights in the Wild West, Hyde Park tells the story of James Riley, a 19-year old boy dying of tuberculosis. The film was shot at the Historic Eaves Movie Ranch just outside of Santa Fe, NM. The film runs 94 minutes and stars C. Thomas Howell, Luke Arnold, Viva Bianca, M.C. Gainey, Quinn Lord, and Richard Riehle. Principle photography was 24 days and the post production was done at Barton's studio in the metro Dallas/Fort Worth, Texas. In 2013, Nicholas assembled a"
"be hanged, the Yucca sheriff frees them and also kidnaps Madeline. Harry then gets his guns and goes to rescue her. Ace of the Saddle Ace of the Saddle is a 1919 American western film directed by John Ford and featuring Harry Carey. The film is considered to be lost. As described in a film magazine, Cheyenne Harry Henderson (Carey) owns a cattle ranch on the border of two counties, with Yucca County controlled by outlaws and Pinkerton County law abiding. After the Yucca sheriff (Harris) refuses to help stop the cattle rustling, he goes to Pinkerton Sheriff Faulkner (Lee),"
"Abilene Town Abilene Town is a 1946 western film directed by Edwin L. Marin. The film stars Randolph Scott, Ann Dvorak, Lloyd Bridges, Rhonda Fleming, and Edgar Buchanan. The movie is set in the Old West years immediately following the Civil War, in the cattle town of Abilene, Kansas. The story was adapted from Ernest Haycox's book ""Trail Town"". In the years following the Civil War, Kansas is in the middle of a difficult time. Homesteaders are moving into the West, trying to start new lives, and are going head to head against cattlemen who have been settled in that"
"because that was where the lumber fell off the train. The town of Pixley, at one end of the ""Cannonball's"" route, was named for Pixley, California. A number of location shots were filmed in the real Pixley. The exact location of Hooterville is never mentioned on ""Petticoat Junction"" or ""Green Acres"". The Shady Rest is an old-fashioned Victorian-style hotel, accessible primarily by train (and a poorly-maintained fire road), where guests share bathing facilities and eat together with the family at a large dining-room table. Kate Bradley cooks sumptuous meals on a wood-burning stove, and her specialty is chicken 'n' dumplings."
"the mistreatment of the Native American population. Parts of the film were shot in Johnson Canyon and Paria, Utah. Buffalo Bill (film) Buffalo Bill (1944) is a Technicolor biographical Western about the life of the legendary frontiersman Buffalo Bill Cody, directed by William A. Wellman and starring Joel McCrea and Maureen O'Hara with Linda Darnell, Thomas Mitchell (as Ned Buntline), Edgar Buchanan and Anthony Quinn in supporting roles. A fictionalized account of the life of William F. ""Buffalo Bill"" Cody (Joel McCrea), a hunter and Army Scout who rescues a US Senator and his beautiful daughter, Louisa Frederici (Maureen O'Hara);"
"channel TBS. In ""High Noon"", Will Kane is a town marshal of the fictional Hadleyville, New Mexico Territory. It is both his wedding day and his last day as a marshal. He is about to leave town with his bride, Amy, to start a new life as a store clerk when the clerk of the telegraph office brings bad news: a man he sent to prison some years earlier, Frank Miller, has been released from prison and is arriving on the noon train. Kane, and the townsfolk who remember Miller, know Miller's visit is for one reason: revenge. Upon his"
"old men in Canvey Island before suddenly vanishing and reappearing in his own village, which was several miles away. One young boy reported having observed the ghost of Murrell collecting herbs at some point after this death; he passed this story on to his daughter, who told it to Maple. Hadleigh also had other ghost lore traditions, surrounding figures known as the White Lady and the Black Man, the latter being a prince and the former a woman who would allegedly invite passers by to join her in a waltz through the ruins of Hadleigh Castle. In a 2014 article"
"a frontiersman called Kentucky Wade instead of Saint Johnson as in the novel. Wild West Days Wild West Days (1937) is a Universal film serial based on a western novel by W. R. Burnett. It was the 103rd of the studio's 137 serials (and the 35th with sound). Larry and Lucy Munro own a hidden gold mine. Newspaper editor Matt Keeler wants the mine for himself and has Larry framed for to get it. Frontiersman Kentucky Wade - with Dude Hanford, Mike Morales and Trigger Benton - come to the Munros' aid. This serial was based on the novel ""Saint"
"Kentucky (film) Kentucky is a 1938 Technicolor film with Loretta Young, Richard Greene, and Walter Brennan. It was directed by David Butler. It is a Romeo and Juliet story of lovers Jack and Sally, set amidst Kentucky horseracing, in which a family feud goes back to the Civil War and is kept alive by Sally's Uncle Peter. During the Civil War, Thad Goodwin, Sr., (Charles Waldron) of Elmtree Farm, a local horse breeder resists Capt. John Dillon (Douglass Dumbrille) and a company of Union soldiers confiscating his prize horses. He is killed by Dillon and his youngest son Peter (Bobs"
"loud and nosy wife; Arnold Ziffel, Fred and Doris's porcine ""son""; and Charley Pratt and Floyd Smoot, the engineer and conductor, respectively, of the local train, the ""Hooterville Cannonball"". Kate Bradley and her Uncle Joe Carson and her three daughters, Betty Jo, Bobbie Jo, and Billie Jo reside at the Shady Rest Hotel, 25 miles outside of Hooterville. The citizens of Hooterville are old-fashioned to the point of thinking that Calvin Coolidge is still President, although they later believe the President to be Coolidge's successor, Herbert Hoover. They are also quite provincial: they have never heard of the Federal income"
"starring Richard Gere, ""The Railway Children"" starring Jenny Agutter, a 1970s classic filmed around Haworth including the Bronte Parsonage about Victorian children whose father goes missing and """" starring Harvey Keitel based on the story of the Cottingley Fairies. Monty Python's ground-breaking ""The Meaning of Life"" and the controversial hit ""Rita, Sue and Bob Too"", about a married man who cannot choose between two teenage lovers, were also filmed in the city. In recent years Bradford has developed a relationship with Bollywood, hosting the International Indian Film Festival awards in 2007. There are four theatres in Bradford. The Alhambra also"
"pictures such as Iron Man 3, We're the Millers, A Walk to Remember, Blue Velvet, Weekend at Bernie's, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Empire Records, Cape Fear, Black Knight, 28 Days, The Crow (death place of Brandon Lee), Nights in Rodanthe and the controversial Dakota Fanning film Hounddog; as well as television shows such as Revolution, Under the Dome, Matlock, Surface, The WB's Dawson's Creek and One Tree Hill have been produced there. Hundreds of films, documentaries, and television series have been filmed there.[10] The name Hollywood East also refers to a former cinema grill in Wilmington where you could eat,"
"subsequent films starred Lewis Stone as Judge Hardy, Fay Holden as Mrs. Hardy, and Ann Rutherford as Polly Benedict. The Hardys' oldest child, married daughter Joan Hardy Martin, appeared only in the first film. Most of the movies were set in the Hardys' fictional hometown of Carvel, located in Idaho in the original play, but described in the films as being in the Midwest (except for the short ""Andy Hardy's Dilemma"" where Carvel is mentioned as being a suburb of Los Angeles). All of the films were sentimental comedies celebrating ordinary American life. The people in Carvel were generally pious,"
"The Hawkline Monster: A Gothic Western The Hawkline Monster: A Gothic Western is a novel by Richard Brautigan first published in 1974. The novel is his fifth published novel, and a parody of Western and Gothic novels. Taking place mainly in eastern Oregon in 1902, the story concerns a pair of morally ambivalent gunmen, Cameron and Greer. On a job in Hawaii, they are stopped by the fact their target is with his son. After returning to California they spend some time in a brothel, where a young Native American-looking woman, Magic Child, comes to hire them for a job"